MAN CHARGED WITH DWI WITH CHILD PASSENGER AFTER STRIKING POWER POLE

A 30-year old Brenham man was arrested for driving while intoxicated with a child passenger charges after he slammed into an electric power pole with a one year old on board late Sunday night.

Brenham police reports say that Jimmy Campos Martinez was driving a 2014 Dodge Avenger in the 900 block of West Main just past eleven Sunday night, when he ran off the road, jumped over the curb and hit the telephone pole. In the car with him was a one-year old boy and a 17-year old girl.

Brenham Police Officer Heather Sowders was called to the scene and had Martinez take a field sobriety test. He failed.

Martinez was arrested for driving while intoxicated with a child passenger and driving while license invalid. .